Anthony P. Daddino

Anthony P. Daddino, P.C. is a partner with the firm. Anthony devotes his practice to handling complex, and often times delicate, tax issues that successful businesses and their owners face. For well over a decade, he has counseled clients on income and estate tax issues both in the planning stage (before contact by the Internal Revenue Service) as well as in the controversy stage (after IRS contact).

On planning matters, Anthony commonly works with business entrepreneurs and their families on wealth preservation and transfer strategies. His work focuses on structuring their business and personal financial affairs in a way that accomplishes global wealth preservation goals and that is efficient from both an income and estate and gift tax perspective.

On controversy matters, Anthony routinely represents taxpayers at every stage of the life cycle of a tax dispute, both criminally and civilly. He has resolved disputes involving a wide variety of tax matters, ranging from business and personal income tax, international tax, employment tax, estate and gift tax, and employee benefit and exempt organization tax matters. His experiences include representing businesses before the Texas Comptroller and Texas Workforce Commission. As a trial attorney, Anthony has litigated multi-million dollar tax cases in the Court of Federal Claims and the federal district courts for the Western District and Northern District of Texas, as well as argued tax cases before the Courts of Appeals for both the Ninth Circuit and Fifth Circuit.

Anthony Daddino serves on the law faculty at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, where he teaches Corporate Taxation and Income Taxation. He is a frequent speaker on a variety of topics, including IRS controversy, partnership tax, employment tax, international tax, and ethics issues.

Mr. Daddino was admitted to practice in Texas in 2002. He is married and has three children.

Education

J.D., Southern Methodist University School of Law, cum laude, 2002

Order of the Coif

Member, Southern Methodist University Law Review, 2000-2002

B.B.A., Southern Methodist University, magna cum laude, 1999

Teaching

Law Professor, Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University

Corporate Taxation, Spring 2009 through 2013

Income Taxation, Spring 2014

Bar Admissions

State Bar of Texas

Professional Associations and Memberships

American Bar Association

State Bar of Texas

Vice Chair, Tax Controversy Committee

Dallas Bar Association

Council Member, Tax Section

Collin County Bar Association

Honors and Awards

Texas Rising Stars, as published in Texas Monthly and in Texas Super Lawyers - Rising Stars Edition and on the web at superlawyers.com, 2007 through 2011.

Best Lawyers in Dallas, D Magazine, 2015 Tax Litigation

Media Commentary

Mr. Daddino is often called upon by the media to comment on current developments in the tax world. He is quoted in the articles listed below:

Publications

"Worried About Employment Taxes? Do Not Fear.", BarTabs, October 2011, Collin County Bar Association

“The IRS Is Looking For Non-Compliant Taxpayers With Foreign Interests: Is Your Taxpayer One Of Them?," The Practical Tax Lawyer, Volume 22, Number 3, Spring 2008 (published four times a year by American Law Institute-American Bar Association Continuing Professional Education in cooperation with the ABA Section of Taxation)

Areas of Practice

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